EVENT, 30 August 2026: Festival of Faiths (Indianapolis, IN, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

EVENT, 1-3 September 2026: 8th ICLARS Biennial Conference: State Neutrality and Cooperation with Religion: Protecting Freedom of Religion or Belief without Discrimination (Palermo, Italy) (International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)

EVENT, 18 September 2026: Idaho Religious Freedom Summit (Boise, Idaho, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council)

EVENT, 14 October 2026: Fourth Annual Interfaith Symposium: Faith, Doubt, and the Next Generation (Chicago, IL, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (Interfaith Chicago)

EVENT, 15 October 2026: The US Constitution: Where Separation and Unity Meet (Ames, IA, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (Iowa Religious Freedom Day)

EVENT, 22 October 2026: 9th Annual Summit for Religious Freedom (Dallas, TX, USA)(Religious Freedom Alliance Council) (DFW Alliance for Religious Freedom)

Gender equality and religious freedom in the 2030 Agenda: ten policy briefs (Universitat de Barcelona)

Articles of interest - 6 July 2026 (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Middle East

'We will stay Lebanese': Christian villages reject Netanyahu's claim they requested annexation by Israel (Nada Homsi, Nada Maucourant Atallah, The National)

Mass trial of prominent Shia clerics begins in Bahrain (Atlas Press)

What is the religious and political messaging behind Khamenei’s funeral? (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Asia

Behind the language of "unity" and "progress," China's new law is about more control and assimilation in Tibet and Xinjiang (Kyinzom Dhongdue, Amnesty International)

What’s China’s new ethnic unity law, and what does it mean for minorities? (Sarah Shamim, Al Jazeera)

Why an anti-sacrilege law in India's Punjab has sparked controversy (Abhishek Dey, BBC)

No fundamental right to insist on particular route for religious procession: Allahabad High Court refuses plea seeking new Muharram Tazia route (Times of India)

China frees pastor detained in crackdown on religion after Trump’s urging (Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times)

Latin America

Nicaragua: Bishop and Roman Catholic leaders arbitrarily detained (CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)

‘God will not get you out of here’: A pastor’s experience of detention in Venezuela (FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)

Beyond Catholic Argentina: the nation’s new religious landscape (Buenos Aires Times)

Africa

Gambian mothers fear for their daughters as court weighs FGM ban (Kaddy Jawo, Al Jazeera)

The Dalai Lama’s 91st birthday (July 6): the German government must protect the religious freedom of Tibetans (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker)

Faith at work, UN Geneva event warns of bias (Juan Sanchez Gil, The European Times)

How Russia turned to medieval saints in its push for ‘traditional values’ – and more babies (Diana Dukhanova, Conversation)

Russia: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly News Digest June 16-30 (Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Turkey arrests popular comedian in Erdoğan insult, religious values case (Turkish Minute)

The conservative Christian women turning moral urgency into political power (Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Alabama AME bishop on redistricting: "The role of the Black Church is to be the guardian of democracy." (Birmingham Times)

U.S. Solicitor General, 21 states, 43 members of Congress, leading legal scholars, and diverse faith groups urge Supreme Court to end Colorado’s religious discrimination (Becket)

Brownley, Huffman, Raskin introduce resolution reaffirming church-state separation ahead of America’s 250th anniversary (Julia Brownley, U.S. House of Representatives)

1st Circuit upholds Maine's antidiscrimination rules for religious schools except its religious expression nondiscrimination requirement (Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)